Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered about a great insurance rate fight, which Mr. O'Malley settled in 1935. Insurance companies had jacked up their rates on fire and windstorms. Some $9,500,000 in increased premium collections were impounded by the courts when the policyholders protested. Mr. O'Malley's settlement returned 20% of the money to policyholders, 50% to the companies; the other 30% was to defray litigation costs. What the grand jury believed last week when it indicted Boss Pendergast and Mr. O'Malley, was that a $447,000 slush fund handed out for the insurance companies...
...Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," two films produced by the Farm Settlement Administration, will be shown in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock under the sponsorship of the American Civilization Counsellors of the University...
...Washington, Alicia Butler, 17, vexed because Elvin Hanback, 18, did not speak to her for a week after a spat, picketed his home wearing a sign, "Elvin is Unfair to Alicia," Result: peaceful settlement...
Critics of the Munich settlement have had ample opportunity to crow in the last few days. Apparently, their worst fears are being realized. But there has been too much denunciation of Chamberlain and not enough realization of one fundamental fact: time is on the side of the democracies. If, last September, Germany and Italy had at least three times as many effective fighting planes as England and France combined; if Germany's monthly output was greater in almost the same proportion; and if, at the same time, England had plans to double her fleet and equal Germany in planes...
From a reliable University source it was learned last night that in case a settlement of the present labor strife is not reached, the University will not attempt to break the strike. Students will be forced to eat outside of the dining halls, and an appropriate reduction will be made on the term bill. raise and so on to a maximum rate of $16 for those employed four years or over...